Shuai Bai
Shuai Bai is a senior engineer at Alibaba Group and a member of the Qwen Team, where he works on vision-language models. He was one of the lead engineers behind Qwen3-VL and has contributed to the Qwen-VL and Qwen2-VL technical reports. He holds a master's degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and joined Alibaba in 2021. His earlier research includes work on visual object tracking and natural language-based vehicle retrieval.
“Alibaba's Qwen3.5-397B-A17B model is the backbone for RoboFine-VLM and the annotation pipeline... Alibaba researchers (Qwen Team members) are co-authors on this paper, making this a direct Alibaba research contribution with commercial implications for their model ecosystem.”
Source→“Bai is also a lead author on the Qwen3-VL technical report (cited as Bai et al., 2025 in Section 6). His involvement signals that Alibaba's Qwen vision-language models are being actively developed toward robotics applications, not just general video understanding.”
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